They also discover the crashed plane and its cargo of cocaine—Bryce and Amanda want to recover it, but Jared refuses, dispersing the brick they retrieved into the ocean.

Needing money for equipment to salvage the treasure, Bryce and Amanda dive to the plane then try to sell a few bricks of recovered cocaine to local night club owner Primo.

Sam insists on going to the police, and goes to the home of one of hers and Jared's close friends, a local cop named Roy.

After getting Bryce to safety, Jared confronts Bates in the plane, eventually using an air tank as a missile by hammering off the valve.

Jared is ready to call it a night knowing that Sam is more important to him than treasure, but Bryce, who is unwilling to give up, dives in again and shouts that he has found gold, much to his friends' excitement.

It shows film crews wearing chain mail as protection, while the cast members perform in the water unprotected.

The sharks are used to being hand fed and will not generally attack humans, but as a result, will grab any item that "hits" the water as potential food.

In an interview with Sean Evans on October 1, 2020 (on the film's 15th Anniversary) for his show Hot Ones, Jessica Alba explained how the production had caught a tiger shark, which they then caged.

During filming, the cast and crew were invited to parties at fashion executive Peter Nygård's Bahamas residence.

Alba said on a press tour that the parties were "gross" and involved girls aged roughly 14 stripping naked in jacuzzis.

[3][4] Nygård sued a Finnish newspaper, Iltalehti, that reported accounts of the parties by cast and crew during the four months of filming.

The website's consensus reads: "Even the endless shots of bronzed beach babes and buffed dudes can't keep this soggy scuba flick's plot from drowning.

Conversely, Roeper wrote, "I don't think there's anything wrong with an escapist adventure, but if you're rolling your eyes in disbelief at the plot and the dialogue, it makes it hard to enjoy the scenery".